Mutation testing

Known as: Mutation Analysis, Mutative testing, Program mutation 
Mutation testing (or Mutation analysis or Program mutation) is used to design new software tests and evaluate the quality of existing software tests… (More)
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2013
2013
Efficient JavaScript Mutation Testing
Mutation testing is an effective test adequacy assessment technique. However, it suffers from two main issues. First, there is a… (More)
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2009
Highly Cited
2009
Higher order mutation testing
  • Yue Jia
  • Information & Software Technology
  • 2009
This paper introduces a new paradigm for Mutation Testing, which we call Higher Order Mutation Testing (HOM Testing). Traditional… (More)
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2009
Highly Cited
2009
Javalanche: efficient mutation testing for Java
To assess the quality of a test suite, one can use mutation testing - seeding artificial defects (mutations) into the program and… (More)
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2009
Highly Cited
2009
Efficient mutation testing by checking invariant violations
Mutation testing measures the adequacy of a test suite by seeding artificial defects (mutations) into a program. If a mutation is… (More)
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2006
Highly Cited
2006
Using Mutation Analysis for Assessing and Comparing Testing Coverage Criteria
The empirical assessment of test techniques plays an important role in software testing research. One common practice is to seed… (More)
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2005
Highly Cited
2005
MuJava: an automated class mutation system
Several module and class testing techniques have been applied to object-oriented programs, but researchers have only recently… (More)
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2000
Highly Cited
2000
Class Mutation : Mutation Testing for Object-Oriented Programs
The program mutation is a testing technique that assesses the quality of test input data by examining whether the test data can… (More)
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1991
Highly Cited
1991
Constraint-Based Automatic Test Data Generation
This paper presents a new technique for automatically generating test data. The technique is based on mutation analysis and… (More)
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1991
Highly Cited
1991
A Fortran Language System for Mutation-based Software Testing
Mutation analysis is a powerful technique for testing software systems. The Mothra software testing project uses mutation… (More)
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1982
Highly Cited
1982
Weak Mutation Testing and Completeness of Test Sets
Different approaches to the generation of test data are described. Error-based approaches depend on the definition of classes of… (More)
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